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As we start August there are Olympic sized best practices in and out of Paris that we wanted to highlight four. Bucks Stop Obesity Here. The Milwaukee Bucks, always looking for a way to cut through the clutter with unique partnership activations, even in the offseason, found one with a long runway leading to success …
It’s the middle of the summer and the Olympics are here obviously…so three different listens worth your time…on a unique hoops pipeline…the change from a car to a mobility company…and what its like to be an athlete from Guam…You can hear all of our episodes here as well. The Road to The NBA Front Office …
It was a busy three days in and around Kansas and Missouri this past week, all without actually venturing into the heart of Kansas City, Missouri, which I am looking forward to on a later trip this fall. Still even with touching the fringes of KC, there were a ton of best practices and learnings, …
There is nothing like Spring Training in baseball. Fans flock to two central locales, Florida and Arizona, to escape the winter blues, look ahead to warmer weather and watch baseball games that don’t count in the standings. If you time things right, you can see a dozen teams in just a few days, all part …
This happens from time to time in cyclical worlds, be they sports, entertainment or even education. You get to a point of rinse and repeat, hopefully taking the best practices of years past and reframing so that the core messages or best practices stay consistent and true, while the anecdotes, even the best ones, get …
So much of what we look at as successful storytelling comes in how we frame the message. A nuance, a look at different angle, a slight shift of a phrase, and suddenly we look at things in a much different light. I remember when my college roomie Joe Giblin, who was in ROTC, brought back …
We are still in the infancy…no pun intended…of the growth of athletes who happen to be women being fully accepted, championed, and mainstreamed into the media and the brand activation side of sports. Data is growing, coverage is increasing, numbers are rising, crossover is expanding, but we still take steps forward in slow but important …
In just a weeks time the National Sports Collectors Convention, a massive treasure trove of memorabilia new, unique and traditional, will make its stop in Cleveland this year, followed by FantaicsFest in New York in August. Both will be a treasure trove of stuff feeding into the growing market of collectables, and both are worth a …
The media world is all abuzz with the NBA deals that now appear imminent…but let’s look elsewhere again for those looking to find an audience on platforms where they were not before. Case in point, Dr. Phil’s 300+ Hour Commitment to PBR Starts that starts this Weekend When PBR announced a landmark media rights agreement …
Maybe we think its July 4th, when Joey Chestnut and all the newer faces again dominated the airwaves at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and beyond, but in reality, National Hot Dog Day is actually the third Wednesday in July. For all its innovation and brand creativity baseball has yet to have an official hot dog …
